Name: Key Issue #1 Rubenstein Chapter 1: Basic Concepts Guided Reading Questions 1. What are the two main features of human behavior? 2. What are the three most important cultural features? 3. What are the three most important economic activities? 4. What two questions do human geographers ask? 5. What is Geography s most important tool? 6. Who was the first person to use the term geography? 7. What information did Ptolemy (100-170 AD) use to create his maps? 8. Who is the father of Chinese cartography?
9. What cartographer first used the label America? 10. Who created the first modern atlas? 11. What important decision must cartographers make when creating a map? 12. What are the 3 common forms of scale? 13. Explain what 1:24,000 means. 14. Why does Earth s shape pose a problem for cartographers? 15. Explain the positives and negatives of the Robinson projection. Positives: Negatives: 16. Explain the positives and negatives of the Mercator projection. Positives: Negatives: 17. What do we call the arcs drawn between the North and South poles? 18. What do we call the circles drawn around the globe parallel to the equator? 19. Why does 0º longitude run through Greenwich, England? 20. If Greenwich Mean Time is 11:00am on Monday, what day and time is it in LA? 21. How many satellites must be located in order for GPS to determine location?
22. What is GPS most commonly used for? Key Issue #2 23. What three ways are used to identify location? 24. Give three Utah examples of Toponym (person, religion, and physical environment). 25. What are some important site characteristics? 26. How did situation effect the growth of Ogden in the19th century? 27. What are the three types of regions? 28. Identify each formal region example as being universal or predominant. Alabama is the most Republican state in the U.S. Donald Trump is the President of the United States. High School aged teens from Pleasant View go to Weber High School. The combined sales tax rate for Utah and Weber county is 7.1% Utah is a Mormon state. 29. Give an example of a functional region in Utah.
30. Come up with three examples of Vernacular regions. 31. What are the two meanings of culture? 32. Name three things help distinguish more developed from less developed regions. 33. What is the main occupation in less developed countries (LDC s)? 34. What is the main occupation is more developed countries (MDC s)? Key Issue #3 35. What three main properties of distribution do geographers identify? 36. What two factors are used when determining density? 37. What does Behavioral geography emphasize? 38. What does Humanistic geography emphasize? 39. What are the two basic types of diffusion?
40. Give an example of relocation diffusion (other than the one listed above). 41. How are the languages spoken in the western hemisphere a result of relocation diffusion? 42. Give an example for each of the following types of expansion diffusion. Hierarchical Contagious Stimulus 43. What are the three hearth regions in the global culture and economy? 44. What is meant by the term periphery? Key Issue #4 45. What are some examples of practices that contribute to a more sustainable future? 46. What are the three pillars of sustainability? 47. Who authored Our Common Future for the United Nations? 48. What does the Brundtland Report argue? 49. How does supply and demand affect prices?
50. What are potential resources? 51. What argument do environmentally oriented critics make regarding sustainability? 52. What theory opposes these arguments? 53. What three of Earth s systems are abiotic? 54. Which of Earth s systems is biotic? 55. What contribution did Vladimir Köppen make to climate? 56. What is geomorphology? 57. Where do people prefer living? 58. How can farmers avoid erosion? 59. How can farmers minimize the depletion of nutrients in the soil? 60. What did Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and Carl Ritter (1779-1859) argue regarding the environment? 61. What does the phrase think global, act local mean?